Pensions

The NAPF has accused the government of failing to import the bold stance it has taken in other areas of the economy to support employers offering final salary pensions by relaxing rules...

Nigel Manley, head of self invested pensions, Premier Pension Services, says "Although the SSAS takeover market has always been relatively active amongst providers, this has historically been driven by service issues and/or...

Dr Ros Altmann, independent pensions consultantLifestyling solutions suffer from the disadvantages of any ’one-size-fits-all’ approach. It may work for some people, but it will not be right for all.The problem stems from...

For those uninitiated in the minutiae of this particular tax break, salary sacrifice is a clever way for employers and employees to reduce the NI or income tax due on cash salary...

corporate adviser january 2009Providers continually ask the same question of advisors - how can we grow the marketplace? On face value this is a reasonable question, given that only 10 per cent...

Little more than 20 years later the mobile phone is truly universal. Most business people carry not only their main phone but frequently a blackberry or similar data device. Equally most children...

When I refer to the retail market I am referring to contract-based group personal pension and stakeholder schemes, where the contract exists between the provider and the policyholder. Group occupational schemes can...

Eighteen months down the line from the onset of the Retail Distribution Review it is clear that the FSA still does not know how the group pensions market fits into the equation....

But no-one is in any doubt that stress-related problems are increasing as a direct result of the onset of recession. HSA, for example, reports a 236 per cent increase in demand for...

"The announcement goes some way towards addressing the hugely emotive issue of access to drugs," says Stephen Hadrill, director general of the Association of British Insurers. "The insurance industry has a key...